Re: Beagle CPU usage (was Proposed module: tracker)

["Diego Escalante" <dieguito gmail com>]

On 1/15/07, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 10:15 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> <snip>
> > We put a call to setrlimit() in gst-office-thumbnailer, so that the
> > helper convert(1) process is limited to 256 MB of memory and 5 seconds
> > of CPU time.  Some files do *not* get thumbnailed, of course, but this
> > is better than making the machine unusable.
>
> Neat. I'll try and do something similar for Totem's thumbnailer (it
> currently uses a 30 sec time-limit, so it would be nice to also set a
> certain amount of CPU).
I downloaded some guadec videos the other day to my desktop folder and
t-v-t ate my ram and processor making thumbnails for 2 or 3 semi
downloaded files. Since they were changing each second I imagine that
this timeout was reset each time.

That means that I support your idea :).

> Cheers
>
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